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I am closer to one Syrian and two Lebanese tester under R1a group simply because I share more SNPs than anyone else under that category.

I was thinking I could be under Dersim group; however it seems like I am (-) for YP5820. Under YP5820 there are Kurdish and Armenian testers.

I know R1a is classified as IndoEuropean however, as you are probably aware there are number of branches with considerable number of people from Middle East. (and I am not even talking about Z93 which is a probably a solid Asian branch of R1a)

For example when you look at the sequence of M420>M459>M198>M417>Z645>Z283>Z282>Y17491>YP4858>

you have people from Pakistan, Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Italy and even Ukraine.

I've read that this Y17491 branch could very well be another Asian branch which moved along with Z93.

To me this Y17491 branch needs a lot more samples to represent ancestry.

Regarding Adyge people, I have come to know some Adyge and Caucasian people who has serious knowledge of their background. There seems to be no similar sequence to mine. Yes there are serious number of R1a people among Eastern Caucasia but none from my branch.
Thus, for now I do not have any sign of Caucasian ancestry in terms of YDNA data.

On the other hand autosomal data has some signs of a positive anomaly for Caucasian background which is quite usual for anyone in the region.